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E.-BUSSEY.

STOVE.

N0. 363,81. Patented. May 1'7, 1887.

NITED STATES PATENT FFliQE.

. nsEK BUSSEY, or TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR o THE BUSSEY & MOLEOD srovn COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,281, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed August 5, 1886. Serial No.210,068. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EsEK BUssEY, a resident of the city of Troy, in the county of Ronsselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the Io same, reference being had to the accompanying d rawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the I 5 several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in stoves, specialreference being had to the oven and grate; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The objects of the invention are set forth in connection with the description.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in perspective of my improved grate projecting from a stove-oven. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the grate. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the oven-bottom and grate, taken at about the position indicated by the broken lines a; w in Figs. 2 and 5, and showing a portion of the vertical oveirwalls. Fig. 4 is a similar section, in which the upper surface of the bottom plate of the oven is plane instead of grooved, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the grooved bottom plate of the oven.

A is the oven, and B the grate.

The grate is provided with side flanges, i, having stops 9, formed by the elevations h at or near the inner end of the grate. The outer end is provided with a combined handle-bar 0 and foot-rest, O. The bar 0 is preferably depressed to or below the level of the upper surface of the grate to permit the door to be swung from the open position, (shown at D) to the closed position (shown at D,) and vice versa- The vertical side walls of the oven'are provided with projecting lugs or stops 9, one on each of the two sides, to project out over the flanges of the grate and prevent the inner end of the grate from tipping up when partly withdrawn from the oven, and to come in contact with stops 9 on the grate when the grate is drawn out and arrest the progress of the grate when withdrawn a sufficient distance from the oven.

' I am thus able by grasping the handle 0 to 5 push the grate wholly within the oven, or to pull it out until the lugsg come in contact with stops 9 and arrest its further progress, affording a convenient means of inserting and withdrawing from a heated oven arti- 6o cles of food and culinary utensils without the usual danger of burning the hands and arms upon the heated stove, it only being necessary to place the utensil upon the grate and push the grate and utensil into the oven or draw them out, as the case may be.

By leaving the grate partly withdrawn from the even, as shown in Fig. 1, it answers the purpose of a stove-shelf, and by having the flanges 2' on the same plane with the body of the grate, as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 4, the oven-door can be closed while the grate is partly withdrawn for use as a shelf.

' The plate forming the bottom of the oven may have a plane upper surface, as shown by Fig. 4., or it may be grooved, as shown by Figs. 3 and 5.

Then it is grooved, the grooves are adapted to receive the bars forming the grate when the grate is within the even, so that the upper surface of the grate-bars will be flush with the surface of the oven-botton1 between its grooves, the grate and bottom oven-plate together forming a plane upper surface, as shown in Fig. 3, the bars of the grate dropping down into their I respective grooves.

When the grate is drawn out of an oven having the grooves, the cross-bars of the grate slide up the beveled sides of their grooves and the grate is raised up from the position shown 0 in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 4, which swings the flanges 2' up nearly or quite to contact with stops 9, and so that the "stop-flanges It will come into contact with stops 9 when the grate is drawn out far enough.

The even base-plate affords a'slideway for the grate, which acts asa slide-support for the foot-rest G. The foot-rest can thus be easily adjusted at any desired distance from the stove by moving its slide-support back rco and forth on said slideway. When the feet are placed upon the foot-rest for the purpose of warming them, their position can be easily accommodated to the degree of heat emanating from the stove or range. When the heat is at its minimum, the foot-rest can be moved in toward the stove to the limit of its inward movement, and when the heat is at its maximum the rest can be moved outward to the limit of its outward movement, where the feet can benwarmed without danger of burning them or their covering.

.What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a stove having an oven, a door for closing said oven, and a grate or plate resting, loosely on the bottom of the oven, provided with a foot-rest at its front edge, a space being left between the lower edge of the door and the front edge of the oven-bottom, whereby the foot-rest may project beyond the stove when the oven-door is closed.

2. In a cook-stove or range, the combination of a slide-grate and an oven base-plate provided with intersecting grooves for the purpose of letting said slide-grate down flush with the surface of the oven-plate, substantially as-desoribed.

v In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of August, 1886.

ESEK BUSSEY.

' -Witn esses:

Gno. A. MOSHER, A. W. WIoKEs. 

